Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 as a universal call to action for global development by the year 2030. With 17 goals in total, they tackle related issues from the social, environmental, and economic sectors, where governments, corporations, and civil society must work together to achieve the SDGs to end poverty, guarantee everyone’s dignity and opportunity, and save the planet within environmental limits so that everybody can enjoy our planet.
The SDGs recognize that development is an integrated process and that innovations in one area can have an impact on outcomes in other areas. Governments are committed to giving vulnerable people their priority as they work to end AIDS, hunger, poverty, and discrimination against women and girls.
The SDGs, which expanded the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), are a comprehensive framework that was built through an inclusive process that included significant input from diverse sectors and regions, including creativity, expertise, technology, and financial resources. Even though governments are their main focus, the SDGs acknowledge the crucial role that businesses and organizations play in accomplishing these goals. Although they are applicable globally, governments must modify them to fit into national action plans that take into account each nation’s particular needs and resources. The SDGs serve as an international framework that brings organizations together to collaborate on the objectives and top priorities of sustainable development.
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals:
- End poverty in all its forms everywhere
- End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
- Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
- Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
- Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
- Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
- Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
- Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
- Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
- Reduce inequality within and among countries
- Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
- Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
- Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
- Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
- Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
- Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
- Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a comprehensive plan of action addressing people, the planet, and prosperity to strengthen universal peace. It pledges all nations and stakeholders to work together to accomplish global poverty to achieve sustainable development.
The agenda places a strong emphasis on the need to raise humanity out of poverty, safeguard the environment, and make revolutionary changes for a sustainable future. The Millennium Development Goals are expanded upon by the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets, which integrate social, economic, and environmental aspects. The agenda for the next few years centers on ending poverty and hunger, guaranteeing the fulfillment of human potential, protecting the environment from harm, developing prosperity in balance with the environment, fostering inclusive and peaceful societies, and organizing a Global Partnership for Sustainable Development. The SDG’s connections are crucial to achieving the agenda’s goals, which include significant improvements in everyone’s lives and a positive transformation of the planet.
Data for Good has chosen to focus its efforts on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 agenda, providing a framework to develop a shared understanding of the global challenges we’re facing. We believe that working together is crucial for contributing significantly to a sustainable future. Data for Good enables these stakeholders to seamlessly measure, understand, and amplify the environmental and social impacts of their projects, promoting the exchange of knowledge for common progress to contribute to a better enjoyable planet.